I’ve had this idea for a few years now that requires some artistic assistance. Does anyone know a mapmaker?

What’s yours? Ross Macdonald or John D. MacDonald? How about both . . .

Riverhead is blessed to have an organization, the Butterfly Effect Project, that sees how girls are butterflies in progress, from birth, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, to adult.

From Montauk to Southampton Village, the latest.

Paid Notice: Our beloved mother, Barbara Ann Beitel Cooney, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. Her family traveled from near and far to say their goodbyes and to show their appreciation and love.

Paid Notice: Thomas Michael Waygood was born on Dec. 18, 1946 in Everett, Washington, to James W. Waygood Sr. and the former Margaret Mortland. He passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from congestive heart failure, following surgery.

Paid Notice: Elaine Leddy DeFalco, 93 of East Hampton passed away peacefully of natural causes at home on April 21st, the same day as the Pope.

LongHouse Reserve is heading into the high season with art, performances, special events, conversations, and a unique four-season garden named one of the most peaceful places in New York State.

Guild Hall Museum will open for the season with "Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture" and "Wading Room," an environment created by Almond Zigmund.

"Gingy's Diaries," a new theater work created by Ilene Beckerman with Michael Disher, will premiere in workshop form at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek opens with a collaborative show of work by Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann, and "Commuter Drawings" by Ralph Stout.

The Shelter Island Friends of Music will present a free recital by Michael Stephen Brown, an award-winning pianist and composer who has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Louvre.

New book and exhibition celebrate 50 Hamptons artists, living sculptures by Mamoun Nukumanu at Tripoli, photographs by Anthony Lombardo in Southampton.

Movement and sound-based performance at The Church, jazz and pop at the Temple, comedy at Bay Street and the Southampton Cultural Center, Manhattan fund-raiser for LTV.

Share the Harvest Farm's Spring Market at St. Luke's, Cinco de Mayo specials at La Fondita, foraging for oysters in Montauk.

Faustin Nsabumukunzi’s alleged past caught up with him last Thursday, when the Bridgehampton beekeeper was arrested and charged with immigration fraud for concealing his role in the Rwandan genocide more than 30 years ago. 

The community has been invited to share its priorities for East Hampton Village at a virtual workshop on May 1 at 6:30 p.m. as part of the village’s work toward updating its comprehensive plan. 

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will commemorate Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a guest speaker and service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. 

Joe Silvestro is proof that high school robotics clubs can prepare students for future careers. He graduated from Southold High School in 2020, “a crazy time,” he said, to be stepping out into the real world. Two semesters at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in upstate Oneida soon helped him realize that college wasn’t for him, and he went to work for the Mills Canvas company in Greenport. Now, five years later, Mr. Silvestro is a founding partner in a company called Talos 3D Fabrication in Southampton.

Republicans may be in control now in Washington, D.C., but it’s a different story in East Hampton Town, where the chairman of the Republican Committee confirmed this week that his party will not be running a candidate for supervisor and that only one of its candidates for town board will be actively campaigning.